Human chain
By: Seamus Heaney
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780374173517
Subjects: English poetry; Irish authors; Poetry
Description: Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: "Had I not been awake"; title: Album; title: Conway Stewart; title: Uncoupled; title: Butts; title: Chanson d'Aventure; title: Miracle; title: Human chain; title: Mite-box; title: Old refrain; title: Wood road; title: Baler; title: Derry Derry Down; title: Eelworks; title: Slack; title: Herbal; title: Canopy; title: Riverbank field; title: route 110; title: Death of a painter; title: Loughanure; title: Wraiths; title: Sweeney-out-takes; title: Colum Cille Cecinit; title: Hermit songs; title: "Lick the pencil"; title: "Door was open and the house was dark"; title: Kite for Aibhin.